"Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth."

-- Paul Engle

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Water Quotes

“Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.”
“... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord.”
“I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.”
“People who say real men don't wear pink obviously don't know any real men!”
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”
“I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.”
“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.”

Source : "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2001.
“Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?”

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